DEATH THREATS OF ANTI-VAXXERS LED AN AUSTRIAN DOCTOR TO COMMIT SUICIDE

Fri 29 July 2022:

According to the public prosecutor’s office, a doctor in Austria who had to shut down her practice due to threats to her life made by those opposed to taking action to stop the pandemic committed suicide on Friday.

She left suicide notes but the public prosecutor’s office did not provide further information. It said no post-mortem examination was planned.

Austrian Health Minister Johannes Rauch responded to news of her death with dismay. “Death threats against her and her staff were brutal reality. Hatred against people is inexcusable. This hatred must finally stop,” he said in a tweet.

The doctor, who worked in Upper Austria, had recently closed her practice, a step she said was due to months of receiving threatening letters from those opposed to vaccines and measures taken by the government to contain the pandemic.

In one of the letters she received, the writer said he would enter her premises and torture and kill the doctor and her staff.

She said could no longer afford the costs for security measures, in a statement posted on her website. The doctor was given police protection for a long time but said she was had also spent about €100,000 ($102,000) herself on security measures.

The public prosecutor’s office stated that the police will keep looking into who sent the threatening letters.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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